I think that the Dr.Tanners and those others who go forty days without eating do it by resolutely keeping out the desire to eat, in the beginning, and that after a few hours the desire is discouraged and comes no more.
Once I tried my scheme in a large medical way.

I had been confined to my bed several days with lumbago.

My case refused to improve.

Finally the doctor said,-- "My remedies have no fair chance.

Consider what they have to fight, besides the lumbago.